DECARBONIZING HEAVY-DUTY TRANSPORT

With a total of over 8Gt CO2, long-distance transport accounts for 12% of global emissions today. In the absence of mitigation efforts, these would increase to over 12GT CO2 by 2040 and represent 20% of global emissions. Decarbonizing heavy-duty transport constitutes both a significant challenge and a key opportunity for industrial competitiveness. The ETC’s preliminary findings indicate that reaching zero carbon emissions for these sectors is in the realm of technical feasibility and could be achieved at a manageable cost to the economy.

This first round of consultation papers covers:

Reaching zero carbon emissions from heavy road transport

Reaching zero carbon emissions from shipping

Reaching zero carbon emissions from aviation

To download these papers, please use the sign-up form on this page.

Please note that the analysis and conclusions presented in these papers are still being refined and should therefore be treated as being “work in progress”. The members of the Commission and the institutions with which they are affiliated have not been asked to formally endorse these papers.

We warmly welcome your feedback on the papers until 31st August 2018. Please send comments, questions and requests for follow-ups to pmo@energy-transitions.org. We are particularly interested in feedback on the feasibility and cost of different decarbonization options, and on the recommendations to policymakers, industries, businesses and investors. This feedback will be integrated in the final report to be published in November 2018.

UPCOMING CONSULTATION PAPERS

The ETC is focusing its analytical and influencing efforts in 2018 on those sectors which are likely to be harder to decarbonize, including heavy industry and heavy-duty transport. The Commission has set out to engage with a broad group of stakeholders as part of a thorough consultation process which will feed into a final report to be launched in November 2018.

Following the release of the above papers on heavy-duty transport, the ETC will release 2 other sets of consultation papers.

3 consultation papers which lay out pathways to reach zero carbon emissions for steel, cement and plastics (released in July 2018: more here)